Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 13
... Seen in the streets of cities , how great they are ! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years , how would men believe and adore ; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown ...
... Seen in the streets of cities , how great they are ! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years , how would men believe and adore ; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown ...
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... seen before , and which shall never be seen again . The heavens change every moment , and reflect their glory or gloom on the plains beneath . The state of the crop in the surrounding farms alters the expression of the earth from week ...
... seen before , and which shall never be seen again . The heavens change every moment , and reflect their glory or gloom on the plains beneath . The state of the crop in the surrounding farms alters the expression of the earth from week ...
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... seen and felt as beauty , is the least part . The shows of day , the dewy morning , the rainbow , mountains , or- chards in blossom , stars , moonlight , shadows in still water , and the like , if too eagerly hunted , be- come shows ...
... seen and felt as beauty , is the least part . The shows of day , the dewy morning , the rainbow , mountains , or- chards in blossom , stars , moonlight , shadows in still water , and the like , if too eagerly hunted , be- come shows ...
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... seen a person of powerful character and happy genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , — the persons , the opinions , and the day , and nature became ancillary to a man . 3. There is still another ...
... seen a person of powerful character and happy genius , will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him , — the persons , the opinions , and the day , and nature became ancillary to a man . 3. There is still another ...
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... seen , comes unsought , and comes because it is unsought , remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect ; and then again , in its turn , of the active power . Nothing divine dies . All good is eternally reproductive . The ...
... seen , comes unsought , and comes because it is unsought , remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect ; and then again , in its turn , of the active power . Nothing divine dies . All good is eternally reproductive . The ...
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